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The Man Who Tried to Save the Pentagon
Sep 3, 2026
19m 12s
Meta’s $5 Billion Bounty
Sep 2, 2026
16m 21s
Larry Gagosian’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Sep 1, 2026
20m 09s
Media Monday: Depp’s Second Act & The Journal’s A.I. Shrug
Aug 31, 2026
18m 06s
Do Democrats Need a Rebrand?
Aug 29, 2026
31m 46s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/3/26 | The Man Who Tried to Save the Pentagon | Julia Ioffe joins Peter to illuminate the stunning resignation of Dan Driscoll, the Army’s top civilian leader: his friendship with JD Vance, media rivalry with Pete Hegseth, his push to modernize the military and inevitable clash with Boeing, Lockheed, and Raytheon. Then they turn to Hegseth’s political decapitation of DoD leadership and Driscoll’s final, Hail Mary attempt to alert Trump to the true extent of the chaos inside the Pentagon. | 19m 12s | ||||||
| 9/2/26 | Meta’s $5 Billion Bounty | Eriq Gardner joins Peter to explain why Meta’s settlement with state attorneys general is less about the $18 billion price tag than the precedent it sets: courts writing the rules for social media. Then they dig into the deal’s wildest clause—an extra $5 billion if regulators get TikTok, Snap, and YouTube on board—and why litigation may be the only path left for policing Big Tech. | 16m 21s | ||||||
| 9/1/26 | Larry Gagosian’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity | Marion Maneker joins Peter to remember Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist who died last week at 97, and unpack her multifaceted career—from a polka-dot obsession to her LVMH collaborations and museum-conquering studio. Then they dig into a recent Bloomberg article claiming Baby Boomers’ art collections may not find younger buyers, and why megadealer Larry Gagosian spies a buying opportunity. | 20m 09s | ||||||
| 8/31/26 | Media Monday: Depp’s Second Act & The Journal’s A.I. Shrug | The besties Jon Kelly and Peter dig into Hollywood’s embrace of Johnny Depp’s comeback, proving real movie stars remain rare enough to forgive almost anything—even among the audiences likeliest to hold a grudge. Then they turn to the backlash emanating from Stanley Druckenmiller’s A.I.-assisted ‘WSJ’ op-ed, and why the paper is standing by it. | 18m 06s | ||||||
| 8/29/26 | Do Democrats Need a Rebrand? | Peter Hamby joins Dylan to decipher new polling on the Democratic Party’s perception problem—to wit, Trump may be historically unpopular, but voters still don’t love Democrats, either. Then they dig into the A.O.C.-Mamdani favorability gap, why Bernie’s brand of populism ages better than the “intersectional” variety, and the Gavin Newsom content-studio model for winning back young men and Latino voters ahead of 2028. | 31m 46s | ||||||
| 8/28/26 | The Social Reckoning | Julia Alexander joins Peter to unpack Meta’s landmark $17 billion settlement with U.S. states over claims Instagram and Facebook harmed teens—and why fixes like two-hour limits and midnight curfews might be easy to dodge. Then they get into Kalshi’s push into sports media, including a possible tie-up with The Athletic and The New York Times, and what it means for journalism’s growing embrace of prediction markets. | 17m 55s | ||||||
| 8/27/26 | 60 Minutes of Fame | Dylan Byers joins Peter to break down 60 Minutes’ star-studded, controversy-shadowed relaunch under Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton: its new correspondents, the internal drama, and whether the show’s reputation—and Weiss’s—survives its September 13th debut. Then they unpack The New York Times’s quest for its own AI search tool, betting that readers want to talk to the paper the way they talk to ChatGPT. | 16m 55s | ||||||
| 8/26/26 | A.O.C. on the Clock | Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to break down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s mounting 2028 presidential calculus, which is colliding with her new single life while she chronicles her egg-freezing journey in real time. The pair walk through her options, her calculated endorsement restraint this primary season, and why encouraging early-state polling numbers still can’t erase real doubts about her general-election viability. | 17m 10s | ||||||
| 8/25/26 | Grassroots vs. Gigawatts | Bill Cohan joins Peter to break down the swift, bipartisan grassroots revolt against data centers and the A.I. companies racing to build them—from Josh Shapiro’s about-face in Pennsylvania to Kathy Hochul’s New York moratorium—and why Wall Street’s trillion-dollar financing spree suggests nobody’s slowing down yet. Then the pair try to wrap their heads around why Bitcoin is suddenly surging after a brutal year. | 20m 29s | ||||||
| 8/24/26 | Media Monday: Pablo’s Paper Trail & MS NOW’s Streaming Bet | The besties Jon Kelly and Peter reunite to examine the New York Times’s uneasy relationship with creator-journalists like Pablo Torre, whose bombshell Clippers investigation—now contradicted by ESPN’s reporting—may not have survived The Gray Lady’s standards desk. Then they turn to MS NOW’s $8-a-month streaming offering, and whether a partisan network can build a subscriber business the way The Bulwark has. | 22m 23s | ||||||
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| 8/22/26 | How Iger Got the Lakers | ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, who broke last week’s big news about the LA Lakers, joins John to walk through how the $12.5 billion deal came together practically overnight. The two dig into the NBA’s exploding franchise valuations, what kind of owner Iger is likely to be, why LeBron James really left for Philly, and the murky, slow-moving investigation into the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard. | 43m 49s | ||||||
| 8/21/26 | Prep Rally | Malique Morris joins Peter to unpack J.Crew’s preppy renaissance—buoyed by buzzy campaigns with Bad Bunny and Jasmine Tookes—and why all that reclaimed cool may not be showing up on the balance sheet. Then they dig into Vette, Condé Nast’s ambitious new affiliate-marketing venture, and debate whether shoppers will really flock to influencer-run storefronts over the retailers they already know. | 22m 05s | ||||||
| 8/20/26 | The Iran–Gaza Election | Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss how Trump’s cascading misadventures in the Middle East are hanging over the midterms—driving up gas prices, scrambling party politics on Iran and Gaza, and fueling more insurgent challengers than ever. Then they turn to the president’s renewed tariff threats, and how Israel could become the defining litmus test issue of 2028. | 17m 31s | ||||||
| 8/19/26 | Flock and Awe | Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to unpack the backlash against Flock, the fast-growing surveillance-camera startup whose automated license plate readers are popping up (and being torn down) across the country. Then the pair examine how Democratic operatives are mining opt-in ChatGPT and Gemini transcripts to craft ads for voters who’ve tuned politics out. | 23m 37s | ||||||
| 8/18/26 | DeSantis’s Silent Treatment | Marianna Sotomayor joins Peter from her home state of Florida to unpack today’s primaries, beginning with Ron DeSantis—still polling above Trump, yet oddly absent from the race to replace him. Then they survey the down-ballot field, from a Senate seat Democrats have all but conceded to House primaries crowded with carpetbaggers. | 16m 30s | ||||||
| 8/17/26 | Media Monday: Ellison’s Exit Strategy & The Lakers Flip | Jon Kelly and Peter reunite for a California edition of Media Monday, starting with the standoff between AG Rob Bonta and David Ellison, who’s threatening to pull Paramount out of the state unless Bonta drops his antitrust suit against the Warner Bros. merger. Then they turn to Bob Iger and Josh Kushner’s staggering $12.5 billion deal for the Lakers, and the private equity money reshaping sports. | 27m 05s | ||||||
| 8/15/26 | Politico's Power Play | Jonathan Greenberger, the unconventional editor in chief of Politico, joins Dylan to explain how a business-side executive ended up running the newsroom—and what it means for Politico's future. They discuss the relaunch of Playbook and its early scoop streak, the push to make every franchise multi-platform (podcasts, video, events), and Politico's bet that its global footprint can turn political disruption into a worldwide story. Greenberger also opens up about newsroom AI hackathons, the competitive threat from Punchbowl and Notus, and his pitch to TV talent thinking about jumping ship. | 48m 09s | ||||||
| 8/14/26 | How Wall Street Fell in Love With Sports | Bill Cohan joins Peter to explain why deep-pocketed investors are muscling into pro sports, from Apollo’s $2.6 billion investment in the Yankees to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger’s $12.5 billion grab for the Lakers. Then the two weigh whether even blue-chip franchises have a ceiling, and whether buyers shelling out record prices have simply gotten caught up in deal heat. | 23m 01s | ||||||
| 8/13/26 | Primary Colors | Marianna Sotomayor joins Peter to unpack the stunning collapse of Francesca Hong’s gubernatorial bid in Wisconsin, where a late establishment cash dump and unflattering press erased her double-digit lead against David Crowley. Then they survey the rest of the primary wreckage, from a grassroots Senate upset in Minnesota to a generational shakeup in Connecticut, and what it all says about a Democratic party hungry for new blood. | 23m 09s | ||||||
| 8/12/26 | The Row Less Traveled | Lauren Sherman joins Peter to unpack how the Olsen twins built The Row into a nearly $400 million luxury juggernaut, and why the brand sits at a crossroads as quiet luxury falls out of fashion. Then Lauren turns to Karlie Kloss’s Bedford Media and its splashy revamp of i-D magazine, from hiring a new editor to the harder task of restoring the youth-culture bible’s long-lost cool. | 16m 56s | ||||||
| 8/11/26 | A.I.’s Great Escape | Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to unpack a cascade of security snafus at the major A.I. labs, starting with the OpenAI model that broke loose from its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face—only for Anthropic and Meta to discover their own models had quietly done the same. Then Ian breaks down Congressman Ted Lieu’s bipartisan Kill Switch Act and the Trump administration’s new, curiously classified framework for reviewing frontier models, and why a real reckoning may await the first truly catastrophic event. | 24m 59s | ||||||
| 8/10/26 | Media Monday: Ellison’s Manifesto & The B.I. New Guy | Jon Kelly chats up Dylan Byers, sitting in for Peter Hamby, about the subliminal intentions of David Ellison’s NYT op-ed and the headwinds facing new Business Insider C.E.O. Christian Baesler. | 21m 39s | ||||||
| 8/8/26 | Succession Obsession | Lauren’s guest today is French journalist and L’etiquette editor-in-chief Marc Beaugé. They go in-depth on the six-part Le Monde series on Bernard Arnault; Marc even watched the standup comedy special released by Xavier Niel, the billionaire investor and husband of Delphine Arnault, so you don't have to. They also discuss the destruction of Bally with its current owner, Michael Reinstein, in the tabloids, as well as L’etiquette’s special issue on 100 icons of French style and whether women should wear ties. | 1h 18m 23s | ||||||
| 8/7/26 | The Media Trial of the Century | Eriq Gardner joins guest host Dylan Byers to preview the media trial of the century between California and Paramount over the looming merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. Eriq breaks down all of the second- and third-order effects of the case, how it’s affecting the Ellisons and Zaslav, and what it all signals about the growing regulatory power of state attorneys general. | 18m 06s | ||||||
| 8/6/26 | Can Abdul El-Sayed Reunite the Dems? | Marianna Sotomayor joins guest host Leigh Ann Caldwell to dig into the week’s big primaries, with a focus on how Abdul El-Sayed’s surprising win over Haley Stevens could help reunite a fractured Democratic Party. They break down El-Sayed’s appeal to younger voters and the biggest challenges awaiting him in November’s general. They also examine Speaker Mike Johnson’s hands-off approach to members with troubled histories like Reps. Max Miller and Cory Mills—and how Johnson’s handling of scandals differs from that of past speakers like Paul Ryan and John Boehner. | 21m 24s | ||||||
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Chart history for The Powers That Be: Daily
Peaked at #4 in TH, top 10 in 5 of 46 tracked markets, currently #4 in TH.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| TH | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| NG | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| PT | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| United States | — | #8 | #8 | — |
| ID | — | #10 | #10 | — |
| Finland | — | #13 | #13 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #14 | #14 | — |
| AT | — | #14 | #14 | — |
| PL | — | #15 | #15 | — |
| Canada | — | #16 | #16 | — |
| Australia | — | #18 | #18 | — |
| Norway | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| TR | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| South Africa | — | #23 | #23 | — |
| Ireland | — | #24 | #24 | — |
| IL | — | #24 | #24 | — |
| Germany | — | #32 | #32 | — |
| Mexico | — | #32 | #32 | — |
| Italy | — | #36 | #36 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #38 | #38 | — |
Chart Positions
46 placements across 43 markets.
Chart Positions
46 placements across 43 markets.